13-letter words containing e, l, i, p, s
- public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
- rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- release print — Movies. print (def 31).
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- republicanism — republican government.
- resting place — grave
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
- sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
- semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.